Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Setting Up Coco's Curriculum for 4th grade- Science

God, I love this time of the year! Pulling books of the shelf, knowing that next year is a blank slate... Gives me goosebumps!

Heres what I have so far.

For Science we are going take Physical Science. The text book I have is for 7th grade but I used it to make a 38 week outline. Then I went online to the three or so of the sites we use for printables and found nearly all of the printables I will be using. (NO lol I didn't print them yet!) I also flipped through her Comprehensive Curriculum Grade 4 and found a few pages that would correlate. I am now hunting for either a grade appropriate text book or grade appropriate books on Amazon. (If anyone finds one LET ME KNOW lol)

Science week by week:
1) Intro to Physical Science - have tons of worksheets from the CC
2) Scientific Method
3) Scientific Method
4) Using Models- have worksheets from www.enchantedlearning.com
5) Measurements in Science- have worksheets from the CC
6) Measurements in Science- have a lesson plan from www.teacherspayteachers.com
7) Properties of Matter- have worksheets from the CC
8) Properties of Matter- have worksheets from the CC
9) Describing Matter
10) Chemical Properties
11) Physical Change- have a 6 page workbook I found at a book fair
12) Chemical Change - I only have a few experiments for these...
13) States of Matter
14) Laws of Matter
15) Changes of State
16) Changes of State
17) Elements - all I have for this one is a story book?...
18) Compounds
19) Mixtures
20) Review of the past three weeks
21) Solutions
22) Concentration/Solubility
23) Suspension/Collids
24) Motion- field trip planned to the Boomerang Guys House (hes a friend of mine)
25) Motion
26) Force
27) Friction
28) Gravity
29) Newtons Laws
30) Work
31) Simple Machines - have worksheets from www.teachervision.fen.com
32) Levers - have worksheets from teachervision
33) Planes/Wedges - have worksheets from teachervision
34) Screws/Wheels and Axles -have worksheets from teachervision
35) Pulleys - have worksheets from teachervision
36) Compound Machines -have worksheets from teachervision
37) Review and write paper
38) Review and testing

This Science seemed that I could make it a more hands on class. So I'm writing in Science Experiment Tuesdays.
We are using Science Project Ideas by Robert Gardner.

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